Santa Clara Public Library

Are you a person 18 years-of-age and up who loves graphic novels? Want to meet up with other readers and discuss great comic book literature? Then join the Santa Clara City Library’s Graphic Novel Book Club for the 2024 season! We will enjoy celebrated comic creators, award winning titles, and a wide range of genres from around the world. Just bring your enthusiasm, curiosity, and an open mind!

The Graphic Novel Book Club meets every second Thursday of the month at 5PM at the Central Park Library's Board Room and also on Zoom.

To RSVP for the Zoom use this link: tinyurl.com/scclgnbookclub

Books can be found on the Santa Clara City Library online catalog (sclibrary.bibliocommons.com), through LINK+ (https://www.sclibrary.org/services/other-services/link), or as an ebook through Hoopla (https://www.sclibrary.org/books-more/digital-library). The selected titles for each month should be completed before each meeting. Reading ahead is encouraged!

About August's read:

"After 20 years working on film and series shoots, Benoît Cohen is drained. His enthusiasm gone, a desire to stop writing and put down the camera takes over. In the city for a year, he still wonders about how best to absorb the rich diversity of the cosmopolitan metropolis, settling on a simple idea: he will become a taxi driver.

Behind the iconic Yellow Cab, behind the fantasy of freedom and independence, behind the faces of his thousands of passengers, Benoît discovers a world in which he is a stranger. First, the administrative maze that leads to the taxi driver’s license. Then the world behind the scenes. And, finally, the prejudices that surround the profession and lead the customers, cops and entire city to look at it, quite randomly, either with indifference, kindness, or aggression.

Benoît Cohen dives into his new life with the idea of turning it into a screenplay for a future film, but the material he collects from this social experiment marks him deeply, leading down unsuspected paths. The project transforms into an autobiographical novel interspersed with reflections on the creative process.

With the help of Chabouté, it is now a sensitive, deeply human graphic novel, with breathtaking illustrations that pay vibrant tribute to the most famous of American cities."

GRAPHIC NOVEL BOOK CLUB 2024 SCHEDULE

JANUARY: Roaming by Jillian Tamaki & Mariko Tamaki

FEBRUARY: The Talk by Darren Bell

MARCH: The Many Deaths of Laila Starr by Ram V

APRIL: Ephemera: A Memoir by Briana Loewinsohn

MAY: Family Style by Thien Pham

JUNE: Flung Out of Space by Grace Ellis

JULY: The Man in the McIntosh Suit by Rina Ayuyang

AUGUST: Yellow Cab by Chabouté

SEPTEMBER: Shubeik Lubeik by Dīnā Muḥammad

OCTOBER: A Guest In the House by Emily Carroll

NOVEMBER: Days of Sand by Aimée de Jongh

DECEMBER: What Is Home, Mum? by Sabba Khan